Build Engineer
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What you need
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace or manufacturing engineering
- 1+ yrs building, integrating or testing mechanical hardware
- Hands-on skill with hand and power tools and precision measurement
- Ability to read engineering drawings including GD&T
- Working knowledge of CAD such as SolidWorks, NX or Onshape
What you'll do
- Turn designs into hardware from prototypes to flight deployables
- Work hands-on in the lab building and integrating hardware
- Own how hardware is built, integrated and verified
- Collaborate with design, analysis and test engineers
- Support qualification units and first flight deployables
They say the best deployable is no deployable, but we believe large deployable mechanisms are the future for large infrastructure in space.
At Beyond Reach Labs, we are designing and building the largest deployable structures ever flown to space. As an engineering-driven organization, you will be at the forefront of the company's key technology development.
As a Build Engineer, you will turn designs into hardware: from early R&D test articles, through full-scale prototypes, to qualification units and first flight deployables. You will work hands-on in the lab and alongside design, analysis and test engineers, owning how our hardware is built, integrated and verified.
Key Responsibilities:
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Prototype
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Research & Development
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Qualification
Basic Qualification:
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Bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace or manufacturing engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
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1+ years of experience building, integrating or testing mechanical or electromechanical hardware.
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Hands-on skill with hand and power tools, precision measurement and mechanical assembly.
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Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, including GD&T.
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Working knowledge of CAD (for example SolidWorks, NX or Onshape).
Preferred qualifications:
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2+ years of experience building, integrating or testing mechanical or electromechanical hardware.
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Experience building spacecraft or launch vehicle hardware, ideally deployable mechanisms such as booms, antennas, solar arrays or hinges.
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Experience taking hardware through qualification or acceptance testing (vibration, thermal vacuum, shock).
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Experience with composites layup, adhesive bonding or other lightweight structure fabrication.
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Machining, 3D printing or other rapid prototyping skills
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Experience designing tooling and ground support equipment for large assemblies.
Additional Requirements:
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Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as necessary to support critical project milestones.
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Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or eligible for authorization under U.S. export regulations.
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About Beyond Reach Labs
At Beyond Reach Labs we are building solar panels for Space that grow from the size of a dining table to a football field in orbit. Mitch and Pele met 13 years ago as freshmen at UPenn studying mechanical engineering. Mitch recently got his PhD at Carnegie Mellon working with NASA on kilometer-scale deployable structures, and Pele spent seven years at SpaceX leading Dragon parachute engineering, safely returning astronauts from space. The collective satellites today use around 20MW, roughly the output of a datacenter on earth, but by 2030 there is a demand for over 10GW, a 500x increase, largely driven by orbital datacenters, space stations, and lunar outposts. If you want more power, your only option is to launch larger solar panels, which quickly become fragile or impractically expensive. As a result, power constraints already determine whether missions or industries can exist at all. But at Beyond Reach Labs we have introduced a new class of deployable solar panels giving satellites 10x more usable power without increasing launch mass or volume. This works because our patented deployable design changes geometry in space, allowing for us to reach 10x longer while remaining rigid.
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